[golf clap]
Yeah, I would have never got that one. Sometimes I look at the answers the next day and do a lot of head-smacks, but not this morning.
Is this the first time it allowed gonging? I have a memory of that not being allowed in the past.
Pretty sure I’ve used it before.
GONGING was disallowed until 2022 and has appeared in 21 Bees since then.
Where have I been?
Maybe it was some other word that I thought should have the gerund included.
I tried LIANA yet again today but it’s still not allowed.
And surely PINNA should be allowed? It’s not as obscure as other anatomical terms that are accepted, like HAMATE
I was hoping for pancit and actin.
I’ve been trying those two (fruitlessly) for years.
Never ACTINIC.
Finally remembered BARBACOA, after missing it the previous 6 or 7 times. Still 7 points short of a natural QB.
CROOKBACK
isn’t accepted, sadly for fans of Shakespeare’s Richard III.
So is the Pangram first badge still active or is it frozen at a maximum? I have 200 from April and at least 60 since then, but I don’t see it updating to 250 or any other movement on it.
As you said, the maximum badge is 200. They are almost certainly still keeping track so you’d still get credit if they make more badges later.
I play for the love and not the badges 
And the maximum for Genius scores is 1000. And there have been no badges for special days since April Fool’s. They seemed to have lost interest in maintaining the badges.
Ditto, but I’ve been trying for First Pangram since well before they instituted the badges. Still do it, so it’s nice to be recognized for that one.
Me too. I try for no more that two or three minutes and then move on though. There have been a couple of occasions where I didn’t get a pangram at all but I always get Genius.
Well I did get the pg first today but my god what a slog. I think I was having an off day and it took me until now to get to Genius.
Acidy is a stupid word.